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Recent Secular Legislation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

David McLean
Affiliation:
Chancellor of the Dioceses of Newcastle and Sheffield
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Recent Legislation
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2001

References

1 See the Synod's, Report of Proceedings, vol 13, pp 797815.Google Scholar

2 There is no clergy disqualification rule in respect of the European Parliament, the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly or the Northern Ireland Assembly.

3 [1951] AC 161.

4 See its report, HC 768, vol 1, para 127.

5 See Canon 285 of the 1983 Code, para 3: ‘Clerics are forbidden to assume public office whenever it means sharing in the exercise of civil power’; and Canon 287(2): ‘They are not to play an active role in political parties or in directing trade unions unless, in the judgment of the competent ecclesiastical authority, this is required for the defence of the rights of the Church or to promote the common good’.

6 Section 1(1).

7 Section 1(2).